President Clinton Speech- I Have Sinned Sep 11th, 1998
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the White House and to this day to which Hillary and the vice president and I look forward so much every year.
This is always an important day for our country, for the reasons that the vice president said. It is an unusual and, I think, unusually important day today. I may not be quite as easy with my words today as I have been in years past, and I was up rather late last night thinking about and praying about what I ought to say today. And rather unusual for me, I actually tried to write it down. So if you will forgive me, I will do my best to say what it is I want to say to you - and I may have to take my glasses out to read my own writing.
First, I want to say to all of you that, as you might imagine, I have been on quite a journey these last few weeks to get to the end of this, to the rock bottom truth of where I am and where we all are.
I agree with those who have said that in my first statement after I testified I was not contrite enough. I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned. It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: first and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.
But I believe that to be forgiven, more than sorrow is required - at least two more things. First, genuine repentance - a determination to change and to repair breaches of my own making. I have repented. Second, what my bible calls a ''broken spirit''; an understanding that I must have God's help to be the person that I want to be; a willingness to give the very forgiveness I seek; a renunciation of the pride and the anger which cloud judgment, lead people to excuse and compare and to blame and complain.
Now, what does all this mean for me and for us? First, I will instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defense, using all available appropriate arguments. But legal language must not obscure the fact that I have done wrong. Second, I will continue on the path of repentance, seeking pastoral support and that of other caring people so that they can hold me accountable for my own commitment.
Third, I will intensify my efforts to lead our country and the world toward peace and freedom, prosperity and harmony, in the hope that with a broken spirit and a still strong heart I can be used for greater good, for we have many blessings and many challenges and so much work to do.
In his speech, I Have Sinned, President Clinton had made unnecessary assertions that are superfluous in getting across his main purpose. The operators, or false limbs presented in his speech could be replace by simple words which would serve the same function in delivering his ideas. The false limbs add excessive information or description to his sentences in which eventually led the audiences away from the main point. In his opening paragraph, President Clinton tried to inform the audience that he had spent much time thinking about his sins; however, Clinton added an additional phrase after he had declared that he has been spending years anticipating what he going to say. As he said, “I was up rather late last night thinking about and praying about what I ought to say today.” Clinton could just simple say I’ve spend much time on the speech to make his point clear without wasting his saliva. The excessive descriptive or informational phrases or sentences should be shortened or cut out of his speech to make his speech more precise in supporting his overall main ideas. The false limbs would only distract the audience and bored them with excessive language.
Dying Metaphors: Faith John F. Kennedy “Let them Come to Berlin”
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin. While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.
What is true of this city is true of Germany--real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.
In this speech, Let them Come to Berlin delivered by John F. Kennedy, the most frequently used offense was the dying metaphor. When hearing this speech, some may think that Kennedy was being genuine and addressing the issue, not scared the mention the “failures” and how many people to not completely understand the situation of Berlin. However, the numerous dying metaphors makes Kennedy sound very vague in the different topics. When Kennedy discusses the Germans “right to be free” and to make “free choices”, he does not go deeper and explain that rights that were taken away or how they are unable to live as free men in their current situation. Also, Kennedy claims that he hopes that the world will be “peaceful and hopeful” and waits for when that “day finally comes”. He hopes for a better future-just like majority of the people during that time- but he gives no ideas or advice that will ameliorate the future or improve the present condition. Because of the dying metaphors used, it seemed that Kennedy was stating the obvious and not informing his audience of anything they had not heard before. It is likely that his audience knows that not there are some men that “are not free” and that there are “hopes for tomorrow”. The dying metaphors that Kennedy makes it look like he is trying to sugarcoat the situation and hide information, which makes this not an informational speech, but a speech to entertain and add a bit of hope to the German people.
Meaningless Words: Maria “Speech Before Congress” President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy November 7th, 2007
Friendship, first and foremost, means being true to one's friends. Since the United States first appeared on the world scene, the loyalty between the French and American people has never failed. And far from being weakened by the vicissitudes of History, it has never ceased growing stronger. Friends may have differences; they may have disagreements; they may have disputes. But in times of difficulty, in times of hardship, friends stand together, side by side; they support each other; and help one another. In times of difficulty, in times of hardship, America and France have always stood side by side, supported one another, helped one another, fought for each other's freedom. The United States and France remain true to the memory of their common history, true to the blood spilled by their children in common battles. But they are not true merely to the memory of what they accomplished together in the past. They remain true, first and foremost,to the same ideal, the same principles, the same values that have always united them. The deliberations of your Congress are conducted under the double gaze of Washington and Lafayette. Lafayette, whose 250th birthday we are celebrating this year and who was the first foreign dignitary, in 1824, to address a joint session of Congress. What was it that brought these two men—so far apart in age and background—together, if not their faith in common values, the heritage of the Enlightenment, the same love for freedom and justice? Upon first meeting Washington, Lafayette told him: "I have come here to learn, not to teach." It was this new__spirit__ and youth of the Old World seeking out the wisdom of the New World that opened a new era for all of humanity. From the very beginning, the American dream meant putting into practice the dreams of the Old World. From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely toimprove the fate of each and every person. America did not tell themillions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who—with their hands, their intelligence and their heart—built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."
America embodies this extraordinary ability to grant each and every person a second chance. Here, both the humblest and most illustrious citizens alike know that nothing is owed to them and that everything has to be earned. That's what constitutes the moral value of America. America did not teach men the idea of freedom; she taught them how to practice it. And she fought for this freedom whenever she felt it to be threatened somewhere in the world. It was by watching America grow that men and women understood that freedom was possible. What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.
The crime of meaningless words is present in Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech he gave in front of Congress on November 7th of 2007. Sarkozy used a variety of words to convey the same meaning a number of times. Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to say either “in times of difficulty”or “in times of hardship”as opposed to “But in times of difficulty, in times of hardship”? His speech is bogged down with his overzealous use of the thesaurus and at one point uses “ideal”, “principles”, and “values” in one sentence just to say that America and France share similar beliefs. This careless use of words makes the speech too repetitive and the words are deemed meaningless. There was no need for Sarkozy to say both “each” and “every” to before the word person, but he did anyway to make his speech “appealing”, thus weighing down the true meaning of his speech.
Sarah Palin’s Farewell Address
Dying metaphors Meaningless Words False Limb What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged rugged hardy people that live up here and some of the most patriotic people whom you will ever know live here, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community up here and I thank you for that and thank you United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.
And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime suchextreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is hope and opportunity and there is country pride.
And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing tough challenges in America with some seeming to just be Hell bent maybe on tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism, and suggesting American apologetics, suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterdays. But as other people have asked, "How can that pessimism be, when proof of our greatness, our pride today is that we produce the great proud volunteers who sacrifice everything for country?" Now this week alone, Sean Parnell and I we're on the, um, on Ft. Rich the base there, the army chapel, and we heard the last roll call, and the sounding of Taps for three very brave, very young Alaskan soldiers who just gave their all for all of us. Together we do stand with gratitude for our troops who protect all of our cherished freedoms, including our freedom of speech which, par for the course, I'm going to exercise.
Rewrite
What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged and patriotic people, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community and I thank you for that and for the United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.
Getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali was soaring. In the winter time it's freezing, but doesn't the cold split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime, about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and rivers, remind us that here, nature wins. It is throughout all Alaska that wild life teeming along the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is country pride.
And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing challenges in America with some determined to tear down our nation, suggesting perhaps that in the past. But as other people have asked, "How can that pessimism be, when proof of our greatness, our pride today is that we produce the volunteers who sacrifice everything for country?" Now this week alone, Sean Parnell and I we're on the Ft. Rich the base there, three very brave, very young Alaskan soldiers who just gave their all for all of us. Together we do stand with gratitude for our troops who protect our freedoms.
False Limb: Jenny
President Clinton Speech- I Have Sinned
Sep 11th, 1998
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the White House and to this day to which Hillary and the vice president and I look forward so much every year.
This is always an important day for our country, for the reasons that the vice president said. It is an unusual and, I think, unusually important day today. I may not be quite as easy with my words today as I have been in years past, and I was up rather late last night thinking about and praying about what I ought to say today. And rather unusual for me, I actually tried to write it down. So if you will forgive me, I will do my best to say what it is I want to say to you - and I may have to take my glasses out to read my own writing.
First, I want to say to all of you that, as you might imagine, I have been on quite a journey these last few weeks to get to the end of this, to the rock bottom truth of where I am and where we all are.
I agree with those who have said that in my first statement after I testified I was not contrite enough. I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned.
It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: first and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.
But I believe that to be forgiven, more than sorrow is required - at least two more things. First, genuine repentance - a determination to change and to repair breaches of my own making. I have repented. Second, what my bible calls a ''broken spirit''; an understanding that I must have God's help to be the person that I want to be; a willingness to give the very forgiveness I seek; a renunciation of the pride and the anger which cloud judgment, lead people to excuse and compare and to blame and complain.
Now, what does all this mean for me and for us? First, I will instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defense, using all available appropriate arguments. But legal language must not obscure the fact that I have done wrong. Second, I will continue on the path of repentance, seeking pastoral support and that of other caring people so that they can hold me accountable for my own commitment.
Third, I will intensify my efforts to lead our country and the world toward peace and freedom, prosperity and harmony, in the hope that with a broken spirit and a still strong heart I can be used for greater good, for we have many blessings and many challenges and so much work to do.
In his speech, I Have Sinned, President Clinton had made unnecessary assertions that are superfluous in getting across his main purpose. The operators, or false limbs presented in his speech could be replace by simple words which would serve the same function in delivering his ideas. The false limbs add excessive information or description to his sentences in which eventually led the audiences away from the main point. In his opening paragraph, President Clinton tried to inform the audience that he had spent much time thinking about his sins; however, Clinton added an additional phrase after he had declared that he has been spending years anticipating what he going to say. As he said, “I was up rather late last night thinking about and praying about what I ought to say today.” Clinton could just simple say I’ve spend much time on the speech to make his point clear without wasting his saliva. The excessive descriptive or informational phrases or sentences should be shortened or cut out of his speech to make his speech more precise in supporting his overall main ideas. The false limbs would only distract the audience and bored them with excessive language.
Dying Metaphors: Faith
John F. Kennedy
“Let them Come to Berlin”
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, the story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the city of West Berlin. While the wall is the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.
What is true of this city is true of Germany--real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.
In this speech, Let them Come to Berlin delivered by John F. Kennedy, the most frequently used offense was the dying metaphor. When hearing this speech, some may think that Kennedy was being genuine and addressing the issue, not scared the mention the “failures” and how many people to not completely understand the situation of Berlin. However, the numerous dying metaphors makes Kennedy sound very vague in the different topics. When Kennedy discusses the Germans “right to be free” and to make “free choices”, he does not go deeper and explain that rights that were taken away or how they are unable to live as free men in their current situation. Also, Kennedy claims that he hopes that the world will be “peaceful and hopeful” and waits for when that “day finally comes”. He hopes for a better future-just like majority of the people during that time- but he gives no ideas or advice that will ameliorate the future or improve the present condition. Because of the dying metaphors used, it seemed that Kennedy was stating the obvious and not informing his audience of anything they had not heard before. It is likely that his audience knows that not there are some men that “are not free” and that there are “hopes for tomorrow”. The dying metaphors that Kennedy makes it look like he is trying to sugarcoat the situation and hide information, which makes this not an informational speech, but a speech to entertain and add a bit of hope to the German people.
Meaningless Words: Maria
“Speech Before Congress”
President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy
November 7th, 2007
Friendship, first and foremost, means being true to one's friends. Since the United States first appeared on the world scene, the loyalty between the French and American people has never failed. And far from being weakened by the vicissitudes of History, it has never ceased growing stronger.
Friends may have differences; they may have disagreements; they may have disputes.
But in times of difficulty, in times of hardship, friends stand together, side by side; they support each other; and help one another.
In times of difficulty, in times of hardship, America and France have always stood side by side, supported one another, helped one another, fought for each other's freedom.
The United States and France remain true to the memory of their common history, true to the blood spilled by their children in common battles. But they are not true merely to the memory of what they accomplished together in the past. They remain true, first and foremost,to the same ideal, the same principles, the same values that have always united them.
The deliberations of your Congress are conducted under the double gaze of Washington and Lafayette. Lafayette, whose 250th birthday we are celebrating this year and who was the first foreign dignitary, in 1824, to address a joint session of Congress. What was it that brought these two men—so far apart in age and background—together, if not their faith in common values, the heritage of the Enlightenment, the same love for freedom and justice?
Upon first meeting Washington, Lafayette told him: "I have come here to learn, not to teach." It was this new__spirit__ and youth of the Old World seeking out the wisdom of the New World that opened a new era for all of humanity.
From the very beginning, the American dream meant putting into practice the dreams of the Old World.
From the very beginning, the American dream meant proving to all mankind that freedom, justice, human rights and democracy were no utopia but were rather the most realistic policy there is and the most likely toimprove the fate of each and every person.
America did not tell themillions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who—with their hands, their intelligence and their heart—built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."
America embodies this extraordinary ability to grant each and every person a second chance.
Here, both the humblest and most illustrious citizens alike know that nothing is owed to them and that everything has to be earned. That's what constitutes the moral value of America. America did not teach men the idea of freedom; she taught them how to practice it. And she fought for this freedom whenever she felt it to be threatened somewhere in the world. It was by watching America grow that men and women understood that freedom was possible.
What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.
The crime of meaningless words is present in Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech he gave in front of Congress on November 7th of 2007. Sarkozy used a variety of words to convey the same meaning a number of times. Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to say either “in times of difficulty”or “in times of hardship”as opposed to “But in times of difficulty, in times of hardship”? His speech is bogged down with his overzealous use of the thesaurus and at one point uses “ideal”, “principles”, and “values” in one sentence just to say that America and France share similar beliefs. This careless use of words makes the speech too repetitive and the words are deemed meaningless. There was no need for Sarkozy to say both “each” and “every” to before the word person, but he did anyway to make his speech “appealing”, thus weighing down the true meaning of his speech.
Sarah Palin’s Farewell Address
Dying metaphors
Meaningless Words
False Limb
What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged rugged hardy people that live up here and some of the most patriotic people whom you will ever know live here, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community up here and I thank you for that and thank you United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.
And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime suchextreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is hope and opportunity and there is country pride.
And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing tough challenges in America with some seeming to just be Hell bent maybe on tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism, and suggesting American apologetics, suggesting perhaps that our best days were yesterdays. But as other people have asked, "How can that pessimism be, when proof of our greatness, our pride today is that we produce the great proud volunteers who sacrifice everything for country?" Now this week alone, Sean Parnell and I we're on the, um, on Ft. Rich the base there, the army chapel, and we heard the last roll call, and the sounding of Taps for three very brave, very young Alaskan soldiers who just gave their all for all of us. Together we do stand with gratitude for our troops who protect all of our cherished freedoms, including our freedom of speech which, par for the course, I'm going to exercise.
Rewrite
What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged and patriotic people, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community and I thank you for that and for the United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.
Getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali was soaring. In the winter time it's freezing, but doesn't the cold split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime, about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and rivers, remind us that here, nature wins. It is throughout all Alaska that wild life teeming along the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is country pride.
And it is our men and women in uniform securing it, and we are facing challenges in America with some determined to tear down our nation, suggesting perhaps that in the past. But as other people have asked, "How can that pessimism be, when proof of our greatness, our pride today is that we produce the volunteers who sacrifice everything for country?" Now this week alone, Sean Parnell and I we're on the Ft. Rich the base there, three very brave, very young Alaskan soldiers who just gave their all for all of us. Together we do stand with gratitude for our troops who protect our freedoms.